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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Ethan Croft

Labour MP who beat Liz Truss reveals why she was slow-clapped on election night

The Labour MP who inflicted a shock defeat on Liz Truss at the general election has revealed more details of the former prime minister’s late arrival at her electoral count and the slow-clapping that followed. 

Terry Jermy, newly minted Labour MP for South West Norfolk, has challenged Truss’s explanation that she was in a branch of McDonald’s moments away from the count but was delayed by a railway crossing.

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